The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or,… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam... I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
“Let us be practical in our expectations of the Criminal Law.… [For] we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page… — David Abram Copy Share Image
The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation… We cannot any longer take an old approach to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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